But here what we are going to see is Android the Mobile OS that is ruling the world now. So Android basically is an operating system like windows xp, windows 7, Ubuntu, Fedora and many other.

Android is open source. So developers are all around world are always up to improving the OS for a better performance. So Android always comes up with new and latest features compared to other OS available in the market.

Android project started by an individual and then later bought by Google and now it is developed in a large scale.

Operating system is free and updates are also given out as free. After Google acquired the Android, Google services are also connected with android which enhanced the features and power of the devices.

Google is constantly working on new versions of the Android software. These releases are infrequent; at the moment they normally come out every six months or so, but Google is looking to slow this down to once a year.

Versions usually come with a numerical code and a name that’s so far been themed after sweets and desserts, running in alphabetical order.

Android 1.5 Cupcake

Android 1.6 Donut

Android 2.1 Eclair

Android 2.2 Froyo

Android 2.3 Gingerbread

Android 3.2 Honeycomb

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich: The first OS to run on smartphones and tablet

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Android 4.2 Jelly Bean

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean

Android 4.4 KitKat

Android is developed using a slightly customized JAVA also known as Android. The lower level architecture works on Linux.

Eclipse with ADT plugin and Android Studio are used as tools to develop apps for Android Phones.

But there are some important stuffs you have to look into and research, before you jump into the app development. With limited hardware resources, the capability of the devices is restricted. At the time of writing this article the Explorer Edition 7 update is released and we can do some stuffs like, take a photo, record a video, start a hangout, send an email, browse web and some other stuffs.

The device is not like phone, where it does not have a touch display, the glass works by voice commands and mostly by tapping and scrolling the side of the glass. So you cannot expect to add buttons sliders. Still an SDK is not released to develop app for the glass.

If you have been wondering on what would it take for someone to get up and running with google glass development. Following is a list of technologies that forms the technology stack for google glass:

Well, we can start on with what Google Glassers have termed as “Glassware“. Glassware is a piece of software built on top of Google Mirror API. Google Mirror API is a set of Restful web services which help to communicate to and fro with google glass devices. Lets look at the diagram below to understand a little better.

Glass users subscription to your service: You develop one or more web-based service for google glass and publish. These services can be termed as glasswares. Glass users subscribes to your service by logging on to your website authenticating themselves using OAuth 2.0

User subscription by visiting a glassware site

Glassware updates using Mirror API: Your google glassware then starts publishing to google glass cloud using mirror API. To be able to that, you must register your service with google cloud.

Google Glass synchronizes with glass device: This is third aspect. Once your glassware publishes to google cloud using mirror api, google glass then synchronizes your updates to your subscribed users.

You can control the glassware sites you have subscribed by logging in to MyGlass account . You can access this with the MyGlass Android App too.

User can On and Off Notifications to glass from this online site

In the above image you can see my glassware “Batman’s Layer” is listed with the other glasswares I have subscribed.

Ok then In my next post we will see what you needed to start developing for Google Glass …!